[April 1918, not earlier than 13]

I request, comrades Latvians, that you take all measures for disciplined protection.

Lenin

# NOTE TO F. E. DZERZHINSKY

6/IV. 1918

Comrade Dzerzhinsky,

I charge you with the immediate arrest (search and confiscate all documents likewise) of

Spiro, delegate from the Black Sea Central Fleet and from the Tauride Central Executive Committee, on the charge of crime in office.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

¹ V. I. Lenin's note was written after he reviewed Protocol No. 34 of the emergency plenary session of the central committee of the Black Sea Fleet of 23 March 1918, at which, with the active participation of the extraordinary commissar on the Rumanian Front, the Left Social Revolutionary V. B. Spiro, a resolution was adopted proclaiming the Central Fleet as the "highest body, independent of the Council of People's Commissars, for the administration of the entire Black Sea Fleet" (TsPA IML at the Central Committee of the CPSU). At that same session, Spiro made statements disclosing secret diplomatic information. This matter was examined at a session of the Council of People's Commissars on 6 April 1918.

# NOTE TO G. V. CHICHERIN

10/IV.

Comrade Chicherin,

The bearer, comrade Bogrova,¹ was in 1905 a member of the Council of Workers' Deputies and is personally well known to me. It is extremely necessary for her to leave for Switzerland as soon as possible for an operation (the illness is extremely serious and beyond the treatment capacity of local surgeons). Is it possible to include her in the composition of the Swiss embassy? Please think this over and either telephone me or we can discuss it at our next meeting.

Lenin

¹ See this collection, pp. 30, 69, 76, 84.

# NOTE TO T. I. POPOV

10/IV 1918

Comrade T. I. Popov,

The bearer, comrade Bogrova, was in 1905 a member of the Council of Workers' Deputies and is personally known to me. Given an extremely serious illness requiring an operation in Switzerland, she needs to travel there urgently. However, her money is in a safe. Is it possible to review her petition on this matter as soon as possible? Is there an established procedure for reviewing such petitions? Please telephone me your answer.

Lenin

# NOTE TO G. V. CHICHERIN

10/IV - 1918

Comrade Chicherin,

Comrade Rivlina¹ (for herself and for comrade Pokrovskaya²) would very much like to travel to Switzerland as soon as possible. She is thinking of traveling with the embassy. Please think over how this can be done, and is it not possible to obtain from Germany the right of passage for at least women (to Switzerland) in general.

Lenin

¹ E. I. Rivlina — secretary of the editorial board of the newspaper "Izvestiya of the Moscow Soviet."

² No information about Pokrovskaya could be found.